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Do you work from home? Do you have a small business that relies on using the internet? Do you have employees that work from home?

The subject has come up recently on working from home and using your home network for work purposes.

Some Security experts have asked the question how do we keep employees who work home more secure?

The easiest answer is to educate employees on home security and the importance of maintaining good home security, performing good cyber hygiene. Easier said than done. How do you keep them interested enough to learn and continue to practice good habits? Make it interesting, change it up.

Another tool that can be used to introduce employees to the risk of not maintaining a good security practice is to introduce them to a program called Bwapp. Bwapp is a program designed to educate people on what the cyber criminals can do by teaching them what they actually do. Bwapp doesn’t care what your knowledge level is in cyber security. The program is designed to start at entry level and slowly progresses in difficulty. Bwapp starts at the basics, walking an individual through the program step by step.

 WICTRA can help with this. What do we do? We help to provide education on cyber security. We have assembled various sizes of mobile ranges to provide training to groups of 2 people up to potentially 50 people at one given time. Bwapp is just one training aid that we offer. We have over fifty different challenges for people to try in our mobile range setup.

Once again, this only part of the solution. Another element that can be added in assisting people who work from home with their internet security is to provide them with an easy to follow checklist that gets them looking at all of the items within their home that connect to the internet, to see how secure they really are. Keep it simple, this is the easiest way to keep them interested and using it. If they don’t understand the terminology, how can they implement it? Speak with them, not at them.

Keep your employees engaged in what’s really happening in the world. There’s an overwhelming amount of news out there pertaining to cyber security, but which items would be helpful and important to the individual who works from home?

Below is a link to a checklist we’ve created. Feel free to download this and use it to start looking into the level of security within your home. This is a good tool start getting into a routine of monitoring your devices used in your home or small business.

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Wisconsin Veterans Forward

Leading the Charge Against Cyber Threats (Part 1)

See how the Wisconsin Cyber Threat Response Alliance leverages veteran talent to lead the charge against cyber threats.

Leading the Charge Against Cyber Threats (Part 2)

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Suspected Russian hack is much worse than first feared: Here’s what you need to know

The scale of a sophisticated cyberattack on the U.S. government that was unearthed this week is much bigger than first anticipated. 

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said in a summary Thursday that the threat “poses a grave risk to the federal government.”

It added that “state, local, tribal, and territorial governments as well as critical infrastructure entities and other private sector organizations” are also at risk.

CISA believes the attack began at least as early as March. Since then, multiple government agencies have reportedly been targeted by the hackers, with confirmation from the Energy and Commerce departments so far.

“This threat actor has demonstrated sophistication and complex tradecraft in these intrusions,” CISA said. “Removing the threat actor from compromised environments will be highly complex and challenging.”

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Hackers’ broad attack sets cyber experts worldwide scrambling to defend networks

(Reuters) -Suspected Russian hackers who broke into U.S. government agencies also spied on less high-profile organizations, including groups in Britain, a U.S. internet provider and a county government in Arizona, according to web records and a security source.

More details were revealed on Friday of the cyber espionage campaign that has computer network security teams worldwide scrambling to limit the damage as a senior official in the outgoing administration of U.S. President Donald Trump explicitly acknowledged Russia’s role in the hack for the first time.

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Microsoft to quarantine SolarWinds apps linked to recent hack

After only showing detection alerts, Microsoft moves to block trojanized SolarWinds apps from running, opening the door for some IT issues for some of its customers.

On Sunday, several news outlets reported that hackers linked to the Russian government breached SolarWinds and inserted malware inside updates for Orion, a network monitoring and inventory platform.

Following the company’s official statement, Microsoft was one of the first cybersecurity vendors to confirm the SolarWinds incident. On the same day, the company added detection rules for the Solorigate malware contained within the SolarWinds Orion app.

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2020 PDS Conference

Asif is the CEO & President of PDS. They have a conference every year and this year it was virtual on October 11, 2020. He delivered a great keynote. His message is spot on regarding our current challenges and OPPORTUNITIES. His message is a message for hope and that we should continue to leverage our leadership and IT wisdom, skills and experiences. 
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How is your Cyber Security?

Do you own a single computer or a number computers and home automation devices? There are many levels to Cyber Security, but do you know how your Cyber Security stacks up? There are a number things you can do to protect yourself from Cyber theft and Cyber criminals. The Basics. Make sure that everything that you connect to the internet has been updated. From your Desktop / Laptop to your phone just about every device has an operating system that requires some form of updating. If you don’t update these, you’re basically inviting the criminal into your house.

The Basics. Make sure that everything that you connect to the internet has been updated. From your Desktop / Laptop to your phone just about every device has an operating system that requires some form of updating. If you don’t update these, you’re basically inviting the criminal into your house.

During the next couple of weeks, we’ll cover topics related to you and your level of Cyber Security.

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Cyber Security Breaches

Cybersecurity breaches have skyrocketed as the world continues its move to work and learn from home. Are you properly protected?

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Teach Your Employees Well: How to Spot Smishing & Vishing Scams

One of the best ways to keep employees from falling victim to these social-engineering attacks is to teach them the signs.

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All Con, All the Way Down: Bad Guys Spoof Phishing Link Hover Texts

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